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This is a new feature introduced in version 1.1.0. When you press this button, you get two options:

Add to Explorer folder context menu

Remove from Explorer folder context menu

When the ResetPermission utility is added to the Explorer folder context menu, you will be able to right-click on any folder and then choose a new option called “Reset Permission”. Check this screenshot:

i know that it will be sounds stupid cos i lost my psswords. Here is my problem.

I have 3 accounts in my pc. Administrator (by the system) Billy – Standard User and Grego – Standard User. Now all my work is in the desktop of Billy and i have no access since each account has his own priviliges such as No access to others users desktops cos i change permissions to all of them. I try to take ownership by the classic method using the Cagnge owner Tab but this was impossible since i changed permissions.

Any good suggestion how do i took back my files or change priviliges while i am a standard user ?

I have access only in Grego account and i run these commands :
from programs (windows 7 64bit is my os) right click to cmd and run as administrator
then i log on to c:\users\grego
then i type the command takeown /R /F *

after a while the command finish and now i don’t know what to do for the next step.

is there a possible way to change this account from standard user to an administrator use so i will then and reset passwords from the other two accounts ?

or is there a possible way to take over Billy files on his desktop ?

thanX for your attention since i’m very confused and i lost hours of sleep til i found you !!!!
btw your posts are awesome !!!!

There is a bug in this utility. I am running Windows 7 / 64 bit.
I wanted to reset all permissions in a drive letter “I”
However, you utility put double Backslash ( “i:\\” ) instead of a single Backslash. Therefore the cmd shell gives error. Please fix the software, and thanks for it.

Hi! I have a problem with my HDD, if i use windows i cannot access it, i get ACCESS DENIED, but if i boot Linux or something that is not windows i can access all the files inside, I also have a windows installation in it, and when i try to boot it the screen remains black with the mouse pointer being moveable after the loginscreen, Thanks!

thank you SO much for this A few months back I followed your steps for the command line interface after I had completely messed up permissions on an internal HDD and that fixed it, but on reinstalling Windows I was completely locked out of one particular directory – this tool allowed me to unlock and reset everything with great ease.

Thank you so very much!
I have a problem though, when I click “Choose folder”, the app does not let me choose the folder or drive. Instead, it just write the commands to execute and if I click GO it will tell me to select a folder.
Can you please, check that?

I’m on Windows 7 x64, UAC disabled and running it as Admin regardless on and Admin account.

I read your post with hope in my heart, especially the part where you wrote, “the tool “cacls” that allows one to display or change ACLs (access control lists)”. I need to be able to see ALL of the twisted, layered permissions that plague my hard drive, in order to determine exactly what changes to make.

In other words, your little gizmo is probably the cat’s pajamas for mass application of drastic measures, but how can I tell which ones to apply?

I tired the command that the ‘help’ describes as dumping ACL data to a file. The file contains exactly one “.”. Period.

You’re example for displaying ACL info is helpful, though the output is cryptic. I’m sure some expert could read it as easily as reading calculus formulas …

By way of explanation, there are files / directories on my hard drive that simply will not respond correctly to the documented manipulation processes, For example, even though my user ID is owner of certain files / directories, and have full administrator rights, commands like switching off encryption still result in permission denied errors. It seems as if there are, in effect, layers of permissions, based on ownership, access rights, group membership, and ACL / ACU, that remain incalcitrant, even in the face of (seemingly) ultimate authority.

So, if there were a way to display ALL of the convoluted access rules that affect the contents of the file system, it would be helpful in determining what must be altered, in order to perform useful work.

Usually, one just resets the whole folder’s permission and starts over.
Note, if folder encryption is involved then you cannot clear that out.
Another thing, you may want to “[x]” check the “Take ownership” box as well.

This is exactly what I am looking for, I was trying to change security permissions on group Everyone and messed up all the files on F: drive and now I get access denied. I only have one user on this home machine and it also is the administrator, I think, at least it says so. It’s telling me I don’t have enough rights to download your application, I have the same problems when I try to open up PDF files, do you have a tip to give me that security permission? Once I am over that and I can download your executable, I still have to run your software and hope to God that it works and that I get access back on my thousands of files.

Thanks, this works like a charm! I fixed my security issues and was able to download your application, it worked but only on half of the files. the final comment said: successfully converted 13,883 files and 13095 files not successful. On the line item while trying it said “the handle is invalid” and now when I try to open the files that don’t work instead of access denied it gives invalid format even though they are excel. Any ideas what to do to get the rest of the files converted?

Doesn’t taking bulk ownership just creates one problem to solve another problem? I.e.: there should be a way to reset acls without losing ownership info – and please don’t tell me there’s another tool which resets ownership… that just requires you to bulk change permissions!

Thank YOU SO MUCH. One of the computers I was working on caught a Virus that messes up the file permissions you program save me a lot of time I was more then Happy to donate. Though sorry its so little.

You saved me thank you. I had accidentally removed “users” permission and could in no way manually fix all the hundreds of files that I had messed up it kept giving me failure to enumerate errors. Your utility worked perfectly on the second try (had to select take control)

The program breaks when the path to a file or folder is too long. Any chance you can fix that? Maybe by using the 8.3 filename convention to address files?

This is what it looks like when the it fails:
Y:\Computer Backup\F-DRIVE-[BACKUP]\Freelance Work\Stuff I search for when I’m n
ot working\Changes that you make to environment variables do not affect services
that run under the Local System account until you restart Windows_files\system_
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